This beautiful creature is an adult female of a species of praying mantis from Mexico which does not have a common name and is known only by its scientific name of Phasmomantis sumichrasti. 

Like all species of praying mantis she has very sharp spines on her powerful front legs which are used to catch her insect prey, these are very easy to see in the picture below!!

This species of mantis has an amazing threat display, meaning that if they feel threatened they will display their brightly coloured wings to startle and confuse predators, as shown below: 

Because the colourful parts of their wings are on the underside (unlike that of my dead leaf mantis who has it on the top surface) it means that they are actually facing the source of threat when displaying, and they will repeatedly lash out with their powerful front legs to further defend themselves if required!